In Exile

October 7, 1985

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Roger Lafontant, the former minister of interior and police, has been sent into exile in the United States. He lost a power struggle with Justice Minister Theodore Achille and was fired last month. It was the second time Lafontant had been kicked out of the post. He held it for a month in 1973. After the first firing, he spent several years in exile in Canada. He got permission to return in 1980 to attend the funeral of his father and in 1982 he was taken into the government.